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- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam.
- Two U.S. Navy vessels have passed through the Taiwan Strait in an apparent show of force as the United States and China continue negotiations on trade issues.
- A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has rattled the southern Chinese province of Sichuan, leaving at least two people dead.
- More than a quarter of eligible voters in Sunday’s Okinawa referendum rejected the landfill work to relocate a U.S. military base.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has announced he is extending the March 1st deadline to reach a trade deal with China.
- Share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange edged up Monday morning.
- North Korea’s state-run media are reporting that the country’s leader Kim Jong Un left Pyongyang by train on Saturday for a summit with the U.S. president in Hanoi.
- Voters in Okinawa are casting ballots in a referendum on the ongoing land reclamation work to relocate a U.S. military base within the southwestern Japanese prefecture.
- Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito will likely open both the Olympic and Paralympic summer games in Tokyo in 2020 as the new Emperor.
- U.S. and North Korean officials are holding a third day of talks in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi as they prepare for a summit there between their countries’ leaders next week.
- Trade talks between top officials from the United States and China will be extended by two days as both sides try to strike a deal by the March 1st deadline.
- Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito marked his 59th birthday on Saturday. He will ascend to the throne on March 1st, one day after his father, Emperor Akihito, abdicates.
- Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency says its Hayabusa 2 space probe has successfully landed on the asteroid Ryugu in its first attempt to collect rock samples there.
- Authorities are assessing the damage from a magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck Japan’s northern main island of Hokkaido on Thursday night.
- The U.S. government says it is ready to extend economic assistance to North Korea if the country commits to complete denuclearization.
- Japanese government officials say U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to visit Japan as a state guest in late May.
- Trump has stressed that North Korea must take meaningful steps toward denuclearization in order to have sanctions on the country lifted.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown willingness to strengthen ties with Japan and other Asian nations.
- South Korean President Moon Jae-in has proposed that the United States should use inter-Korean economic projects as a “concession” to urge North Korea to denuclearize.
- Tens of thousands of people rallied across France on Tuesday to protest an increase in anti-Semitic acts.
- Honda Motor says it will cut its annual global automobile output to 5.1 million units from the current 5.4 million.
- A senior aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un continues making preparations in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi for next week’s summit.
- China’s government has unveiled a development plan aimed at further integrating Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macau.
- Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido is calling for a million volunteers to help bring in much-needed humanitarian aid.
- U.S. and North Korean officials in Vietnam are preparing for a second summit between the leaders of the two countries scheduled for late this month in the Southeastern country.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declined to comment on Donald Trump’s remark that he nominated the U.S. president for the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has begun a tour of three Asian countries.
- The foreign ministers of Japan and Russia have failed to narrow their differences over four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan.
- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has stressed the necessity of maintaining sanctions against North Korea ahead of the second U.S.-North Korea summit.
- The dispute between the United States and China over Chinese telecom giant Huawei is escalating.